Minutes 4/8/'09

Present: Erinn, Julie, Alana, Simon, Adan, Jenn, Kara, Dan, Shefali, Sharielle, Abena, Amanda, Pronoma, Aaron, Hannah
Letter from Kerry

• Beautifully written, we miss you/her too!

Workshop on HIV/AIDS report

• Went really well
• students already knew how malaria works, had some form of sex ed
• Did map project on where students thought HIV rates were highest and lowest, did quite well
• for Malaria, Erinn, showed video

Workshops at other schools?

• Robertson school-Manchester
• Willimantic/Windham high school/Windham Middle School

Plan Conference?

• Include Mansfield and Windham 
• A lot of work, but great opportunity to bring people together
• Keep on working with MMS, and other schools
• Have past participants help teach workshops
• Underprivileged, under served schools
• need to approach Human Rights education as not ideal, abstract, but something that's implemented everyday

EAT!!!

Walk for Hunger

• Aim for $475, each of us should raise $20
  
• Go to website at http://site.foodshare.org/site/TR/Events/WalkAgainstHunger?fr_id=1050&pg=entry to join the Student Ambassadors team

Reflections on Adan's grandfather's visit
Sharielle's Presentation on Gentrification

• REALLY good discussion/debate